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Campbell, WIlfred - Canada: Painted by T. Mower Martin, R.C. A. / Described by Wilfred Campbell, LL. D.

Title: Canada: Painted by T. Mower Martin, R.C. A. / Described by Wilfred Campbell, LL. D.
Description: London, England, A. & C. Black, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 9 in. x 7 in. Decorated, lettered brick-red cloth. Fine gilt lettering. Art Nouveau-style floral patterned illustrations to cover and spine in gold, mauve and green. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, slight forward cock, extensive but unobtrusive crimping to bottom page tips, toning to endpapers, else clean and bright. No dust jacket, as issued, but protected in stiff plastic sleeve, taped inside. Twelve chapters, 77 illustrations painted by T. Mower Martin, captioned tissue-guards, folding map at rear in duotone. xviii + 272 pp. + [iv] pp. publisher's ads. Crisp, evocative, descriptive, sociodemographic and historical ode to Canada. Another fine contribution to the Adam and Charles Black-published series of books of travel and exploration to Asian and European but especially other Commonwealth destinations (Baer and Durrell; Bonhams). Ill.: T. Mower Martin. VERY GOOD PLUS .

Keywords: Canada Canadian History T. Mower Martin Wildred Campbell 20 Shilling International Series Paintings Illustrations Tissue Guards Illecillewaet British Columbia Mount Cheaps Hermit Range Muskoka Lake Louis Mount Aberdeen Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia Port H T. M

Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85240

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